Over the past several years, we've made it one of our top priorities to enable past and future museum visitor to have the opportunity to learn about Wheels Through Time right from their own home.  We continue to work hard at providing a unique online experience that you can only find at WheelsThroughTime.com.  From news and blogs to hundreds of videos available on demand at no cost, the Wheels Through Time Museum website is currently bigger and better than ever. 

But this is just the beginning.  Starting this spring, we've begun to develop our site to include many of the featured exhibits at Wheels Through Time.  Our goal in taking on this task is to not only show our visitors what's new at the museum, but to provide you with in-depth information on a wide range of historic and cultural aspects of America Transportation. 

As part of this mission, we have created a new section on WheelsThroughTime.com titled "Featured Exhibits".  This menu can be access on the right hand side of any page, just below the search box.  

Here at the museum, we like to say that Wheels Through Time is a "collection of collections".  Through our new "Featured Exhibits" section we will be providing a deeper glance into several of the museum's most historical collections.  This new section will showcase many of the over-300 machines that are on display, emphasizing both their historical significance and the broader cultural context of the era from which they came.

"Home-Made in America"

One of our most recent featured exhibits is "Home-made in America" -- a favorite among WTT visitors and staff alike.  This unique tribute to America ingenuity contains countless machines developed by home-engineers, each designed to make life a little easier....or more fun.

During the early parts of the 20th century, as mainstream America was just being introduced to motorized transportation, many took the newfound success of the internal combustion engine to new levels, incorporating these "highly advanced" powerplants into their everyday lives.  Motorcycle engines were a common choice among these home-inventors -- lightweight and relatively easy to maintain, they provided power and reliability, and could be obtained at a affordable cost.  Whether for business or pleasure, these engines were used in a variety of applications that would pave the way for literally hundreds of developments seen over the next 100 years.

Learn more about "Home-made In America" here.